Games Magazine Awards

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Each year since 1980, GAMES Magazine has published a Buyer's Guide to Games in their year-end
holiday issue. Except for once or twice in the early 1980s, the article has listed and reviewed one hundred
games each year, and was thus dubbed The GAMES 100.

Early in the feature's history, the article served as a reference to many games available on the market,
new and old, listing such long-time classic titles as Monopoly, Clue, and Scrabble--and even the occasional
toy like Frisbee. In later years, the feature has focused more and more on recognizing the best and most unique
new board and card games.

In 1991, GAMES also began recognizing the favorites in each category with a special Best designation,
and has selected one game from the whole list to receive the highest honor of Game of the Year.

Through the early 1990s, more and more electronic games were included in the list, with the computer game
Myst even winning Game of the Year in 1994. Beginning the following year, computer and cartridge games were
split off and given their own separate Electronic Games 100 section.

Lunar Lockout
Place your pieces on the board to match the challenge card. The piece that you want to move is pulled across the board by the second piece's "tractor beam." The piece being moved must move until it collides with the second piece and comes to a...
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Best Advanced Strategy Game

The Princes of Florence
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#4 ALBS, English language edition of Die Fürsten von Florenz
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Experience the golden age of the Renaissance! Assume the role of the head of an Italian Aristocratic dynasty and lead your family like the Medici or Borgia. Build magnificent buildings, cultivate beautiful parks, and invite famous artists and...

Best Family Card Game

HellRailthird perdition
Each of the players fancies himself an engineer of the HellRail, conducting the souls of sinners to their torturous abodes in the great Inferno. But, only one of them will triumph and be spared eternal atrocity. Why not enliven your own gathering?
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Best Dexterity Game

CarabandeAudi editionFunagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.

Best Family Strategy Game

Kardinal & Königoriginal German edition of Web of Power / China
Europe, the center of power in the 12th century, is the stage for political intrigue. Clerical orders vie to control that power by influencing the cardinals and kings who hold the power. By building cloisters in the courts of kings, the orders try...
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Even today in China, the unmistakable evidence of a fascinating story is everywhere. Hundreds of years ago, the country teetered on the brink of a change in power. Regional rulers fought continuously with each other with only one goal in mind: to...

Café International
The Cafe International is a meeting place for guests from many nations. At a table an Indian drinks coffee with a Frenchman; at the bar a Spaniard converses with an African. The task of the players is to divide the international guests as...
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Best Dexterity Game Runner-Up

BamboleoGerman edition
To set up, the players first place all the wooden pieces on the yellow plate, in any combination, even stacked on top of one another if they like. The plate loaded with all the pieces is then balanced carefully on top of the cork ball in the stand.
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Best Historical Simulation Game Runner-Up

Chariot Lords
Between 1500 and 600 BC, Asia Minor and the Mediterranean witnessed the rise and fall of several mighty empires. Often the birth of one empire precipitaed the death of another. How could a small people like the Judeans establish an empire when...
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